Former ONE two-division world champion Aung La N Sang is sticking to what he is aware of finest, regardless of enduring the hardest stretch of his MMA profession to this point.
After dropping three of his final 5 bouts contained in the circle, ‘The Burmese Python’ has heard murmurs about presumably switching issues as much as get out of the rut that he’s at the moment in.
These modifications, in fact, have to start behind closed doorways in coaching. However Aung La prefers to maintain issues simply the way in which they’re.
Talking to ONE Championship, the Burmese-American fighter, who trains out of Kill Cliff in Florida, USA, stated there’s no have to sound the panic alarm simply but.
So far as the 37-year-old is worried, he doesn’t see the necessity to change the way in which he approaches fights.
Aung La shared:
“It does not make an enormous distinction. I do know what my talent units are, I do know what I am robust at and I do know what I am good at. And on the health club, we’ve plenty of you understand, folks that can give me completely different seems to be. So I am going to camp round what [my opponent’s] strengths and weaknesses are. However that does not actually change how I prepare. I am all the way down to compete in opposition to anyone on the earth.”
Aung La, who beforehand lorded over ONE’s 205lbs and 225lbs divisions on the similar time, has hit a tough patch since dropping each world titles to Reinier de Ridder.
The delight of Myanmar bounced again properly by knocking out Leandro Ataides final yr, however confronted one other setback in his trilogy match in opposition to rival Vitaly Bigdash at ONE: Full Circle in his final match.
Aung La N Sang talks in regards to the difficulties of being a two-division champion
Aung La carved himself into the pantheon of MMA’s all-time greats when he concurrently captured the ONE middleweight and light-weight heavyweight crowns.
On the time, he was solely the second multi-division world champion within the promotion’s historical past. The primary was his long-time teammate Martin ‘The Situ-Asian’ Nguyen who conquered the featherweight and light-weight divisions.
‘The Burmese Python’ was even the longest-tenured double world champion since his simultaneous reign lasted for 980 days.
Nevertheless, we’ve all heard the saying that heavy is the pinnacle that holds the crown. The stress is amplified when you have got two gold straps to guard.
In a current interview with ONE, Sang talked in regards to the struggles of being and staying on high as champ-champ.
He shared:
“It is lots more durable than it seems to be. Profitable it’s one factor after which defending it’s one other factor. Defending in two completely different weight courses is just a little more durable.”
